CM/Res.363 (XXIII)
RESOLUTION ON THE SECOND CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN MINISTERS OF INDUSTRY AND THE SECOND UNIDO GENERAL CONFERENCE
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Twenty Third Ordinary Session in Mogadiscio, Somalia, from 6 – 11 June, 1974,
RECALLING ITS RESOLUTIONS CM/Res.246 (XVII) which inter alia recommended the holding of the African Ministers of Industry biannually throughout the Second Development Decade,
RECALLING FURTHER its resolutions CM/Res.276 (XIX) and CM/Res.312 (XXI) dealing with the Second Conference of African Ministers of Industry,
NOTING WITH APPRECIATION that the Second Conference of Ministers of Industry met under the joint sponsorship of OAU, ECA and UNIDO,
NOTING FURTHER that the Second Conference of African Ministers of Industry took place before the Second General Conference on UNIDO,
CONSCIOUS that African countries should present a common position on the Second UNIDO conference,
CONVINCED that the Declaration adopted by the Second Conference of African Ministers of Industry constituted a solid basis for a common African position in the Second UNIDO Conference,
REITERATING ITS CONVICTION that developing countries should present a unified stand during the Second General Conference of UNIDO,
NOTING WITH APPRECIATION the establishment of a follow-up committee by the Second Conference of Ministers of Industry Committee to ensure the Implementation of the Declaration of the Conference,
AWARE THAT may developments in the International scene have taken place since the meeting of the Second Conference of African Ministers of Industry and particularly the sixth Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Raw Materials and Development,
FULLY ENDORSES the Declaration on Industrialization in Africa-Principles and guidelines for Co-operation and Development adopted by the Second Conference of African Ministers of Industry held in Cairo form 18 to 23 December, 1973, and the resolutions thereof
WELCOMES THE ESTABLISHMENT of a follow-up Committee to review the implementation of the Declaration and requests the OAU and ECA to assist and service the follow-up Committee;
EXPRESSES ITS FULL SUPORT to paragraphs 6 and 7 of Part I of the Declaration dealing respectively with the creation of an African Ministerial Development Council and the adoption of the intra-African Multi national Enterprises approach as an appropriate machinery for creating multinational industries, and requests the African countries to do, their utmost to implement these two paragraphs as early as possible;
REQUESTS:
the follow-up letter during its first meeting to be held in September 1974 to review and up-date the Declaration of the Second Conference of African Ministers of Industry in the light of the recent developments;
Member States of the OAU to use the Declaration and the Recommendations of the follow-up Committee referred to in paragraph 3 above as the basis of the African position during the Second UNIDO General Conference to be held in Lima, Peru in March 1975;
RECOMMENDS to all the OAU Member States;
to participate fully in the preparatory arrangements for the Second General UNIDO Conference both in the African level and in the level of the Group of 77;
to participate fully and actively in the Second UNIDO General Conference to be held in Lima, Peru, in March 1975;
INVITES the Administrative Secretary General of the ECA to service the African Group during all preparatory meetings as well as during the Second General Conference of UNIDO.